That we will purge our Party of a hundred thousand or two — this will be useful, but it is a negligible fraction of what we must do. It is necessary that the political educators
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apply all their work to this goal. We must struggle against illiteracy, but literacy alone is also insufficient — what is needed is that culture which teaches how to struggle against red tape and bribery. This is such an ailment that it cannot be cured by any military victories and by any political transformations. In essence, this ailment cannot be cured by military victories and political transformations, but can only be cured by one thing — a rise in culture. And this task falls upon the political educators.

It is necessary that the political educators understand their tasks not in a bureaucratic manner, which also is observed very frequently, when the question is raised whether it is not possible to introduce a representative of the gubernia political education bureau into the gubernia economic council
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